The Christian category will remain here at inventors garage, although future theological posts will end up at http://www.lutheranforums.com/blog/.

In addition, over time, I will be moving my theological content which is currently scattered all over the web to that site. It will likely take some time though.

The difference between someone who does works for God and someone who does works for themselves is this. One says “Look at what I did for these people!”…The other says “Look at these people”. PapaLandShark

This is cool, way cool

Along this line of thought, I always wondered what the proper spelling is.. Chanukah, or Hanukkah, well, its an ambiguous translation from Hebrew. Ancient languages often times can be troublesome in translation. For Christians located in the Northern US, we struggle, as we don’t have a plural form of you… vs our friends in TX can make a direct translation of Koine Greek to y’all.

If you would like to know more about Chanukah, check out www.chabad.org In this area of the country, there are very few Jewish folks, quite different from my time on the east coast. As such, ugly discrimnation shows up. Its too bad, how are God’s chosen people to know Jesus, if we won’t even talk with them. Here’s another great site Jews for Jesus. Rememeber, Jesus, and a great many of his early followers were Jewish.

Being it is Sunday, I thought it would be best to take a detailed look at the word origins and the science to try and understand this more thoroughly. Since one of the contracts I worked with at Rocky Flats was contamination clean up.

While of course running yet more simulations… I’m not a legalist, and I will make my computer work on the Sabbath, although I may personally take much of it off.

Here is the basic concept of what I learned in many years past. Wormwood translates to Chernobol in the Ukrane language… or does it

I’m a literalist, sometimes perhaps too much so. I am also of the belief that God is explicit when it is critical for our relationship with Jesus and his Word. In other part of the Bible, God uses the imagery of the time to guide and teach us. I think it best that unless God has made something explicit, we should think long, hard, and extremely prayerfully before going beyond what God has explicitly given us.

Onward with the science, and the word derivations.

Wormwood is Artemisia absinthium.

Mugwart is Artemisia vulgaris.

Chernobyl was named for black grass, eg mugwart, not wormwood.

In my literalist frame of mine, and my extreme stance of the inerrancy of scripture. If God had wanted to give us this link in the 20th century to Chernobyl, he would have had John use Mugwart rather than Wordwood. Yet, Mugwart was nowhere near as commonly used nor found as Wormwood was in Biblical lands.

Is there a nuclear link, perhaps, is it critical for our relationship with Christ, imho it is not. Is it interesting thinking and reading about it, absolutely. However, we must not dwell extensively on such possibilities, and as a result, cause them to be a distraction from the Way which is only found through Jesus.

Comments both positive and negative are greatly appreciated!!!